Comics, sketchs and so on

Francesco Liori was lucky enough to grow up in his parents’ bookshop in contact with books, comics and records.

When you look at his works, it is clear how the environment in which he grew up has had a noticeable influence in his own artistic world.

We can think, for instance, at the comic strip, an artistic field in which masters like Mike Mignolia, Katsuhiro Otomo, Simon Bisley, to name but a few, were important role models for Liori, or still the posters from the Fourties and Fifties’ horror films and the punk-rock and psychedelic music’s records from the Sixties.

Gustav Klimt, Robert Williams, Salvador Dalì, Hans Ruedi Giger, Federico Fellini and Stanley Kubrick have been essential cultural points of reference for the artist from Cagliari, as well as tattooing art and rock iconography.

The art celebrated in Francesco Liori’s works is, compared by the same character concerned to the music world, a refined communication medium: it is as if you were playing an instrument, where it is useful to know the notes in order to compose a melody.

Salmo’s illustrator

Paper and pencil are the tools in which Francesco Liori starts to work.

It starts messing up and slowly are modelled shapes up to go to the most valuable papers, the Indian inks and to the digital coloring, but the brainstorming-sketch is the most important work’s step.

Inside the wide range of works realized by Francesco Liori, we remember the famous cover of Hellvisback album by the Italian rapper Salmo.

As we can see from the album’s title, it is natural the presence of a very clear homage to Elvis Presley, icon of the past that continues to live in the contemporary age. An image that is transformed by our artist with today’s connotations, in which the past has been mixed with contemporaneity thanks to the artist’s immense knowledge.

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